People have been asking about a video by anti-vaxxer Del Bigtree who claims that the COVID-19 vaccines have not been properly tested, made animals deathly ill in trials, and are ineffective and...
Public health measures during a pandemic (like lockdowns and mask mandates) can make some people uneasy. One argument that seems to underlie this anxiety is 鈥渕asks now, government surveillance via...
There is a man on the Internet known for satirizing wellness trends who was recently censored on YouTube for spreading unfounded conspiracy theories. JP Sears made a name for himself by gently...
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 could be 鈥渃haracterized as a pandemic,鈥� meaning that this new disease was now spreading all over the world. One day, we will...
If the year 2020 can be thought of as a massive, uncontrolled experiment in psychology, I hope one of the takeaways is that confirmation bias is, unfortunately, alive and well. When it comes to...
鈥淚t鈥檚 not a hoax! It鈥檚 not a hoax!鈥� Dr. Moses Turkle Bility, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, told me over Zoom. And I believe him.
If you need to buy a new phone, do you look up different models and brands and compare their specifications to find the best match for your needs鈥� or do you buy what鈥檚 popular, expecting it to be...
The story of the Trojan horse is well known: the Greeks allegedly delivered to the city of Troy a massive wooden horse, which the Trojans mistook for a gift and pulled inside their city. At night,...
If you flipped a coin in the air and got five heads in a row, would you feel like tail is due? If so, congratulations! You just experienced the gambler鈥檚 fallacy.
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